' Pianists in Variety'
Arranged and presented by ROBERT TREDINNICK
(From Birmingham)

From The Town Hall, Birmingham The City of Birmingham Orchestra
Conducted by Leslie Heward
(From Birmingham)

' Tracing History Backwards '-III
Mr. ROBERT BELOE : The Rise of Democracy in England'
2.20 Interval
2.25 Reception Test
2.30 King's English-III
Mr. A. LLOYD JAMES : 'The Seventh Short Vowel
Sound '

From WESTMINSTER ABBEY

Dr. ERNST DEISSMANN : ' Der Handschuhlhändler, p. 44. Der Verwegeno Hofnarr , p. 22 ' (From
Hebel's Schatzkastlein)

(Leader, A. Rossi )
Under the direction of Emilio Colombo
From The Hotel Metropole, London

SPANISH PIANOFORTE MUSIC
Played by STEFAN ASKENASE

Senorita MARIA DE LACUNA

General Notices connected with Government and other Public Services

Mr. DESMOND MACCARTHY: Biography '
Boswell's Johnson; Walton's Lives
The modern taste for biography, stimulated by the new science of psychology and the old game of re-examining predecessors in the light of new facts, has sound basis in our literary tradition. Mr. MacCarthy discusses two of the greatest achievements in the biographical art in the language. Boswell's ' Johnson ' is unique: by his marvellous gift for reporting the conversation of a great conversationalist, that erratic Scot achieved immortality for himself as well as his subject. Isaak Walton 's Lives of Donne, Sir Henry Wotton and other seventeenth-century worthies are models of lucid brevity, very close to the modern spirit in biography. They were published in 1670, seventeen years after ' The Compleat Angler,' and were edited by Professor George Saintsbury in 1927. This should be one of the most fascinating of Mr. MacCarthy's introductions of old writers to new readers.

THE B.B.C. DANCE ORCHESTRA, directed by HENRY HALL
(Shipping Forecast at 11.0)